Sunday, 1 April 2012

Tickets have been launched for this year's traditional MA Symposium. Taking place on the 3rd of May at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation in Manchester, a full day of speakers will discuss and debate the theme of consumption in our built environment. Tickets are priced at £8 and are available through the website: www.consumedmcr.co.uk and the full list of speakers is nearly ready. A limited number of tickets are available so please purchase sooner so as to not miss out on what looks to be a fantastic event.

Sunday, 4 March 2012

Tuesday, 28 February 2012

Infra_Manc opened last friday. An exhibition of great infrastructural projects, both realised and unrealised, within the enigmatic city of Manchester. Currently on at CUBE gallery, the collection on display illuminates you with a pure adventure of the imagination in to what our city may have been, whilst simultaneously cementing your amazement for the projects that came to fruition.

Whether it be a city of Helicopters, or the Guardian Underground Telephone Exchange, which still lays below our feet unbeknownst to us, this exhibition helps to show the true innovation and ideas that progressed the city through the post-war period.

Curated by the MSA's Richard Brook and Martin Dodge of the Department of Geography at the University of Manchester, and part of the Manchester Histories Festival 2012, this exhibition is truly worth a visit. It is on display on till the 24th of March at CUBE.

Wednesday, 22 February 2012

MSA's MA Architecture + Urbanism students have begun to roll out information on their forthcoming symposium, CONSUMED, to be held at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation on the 3rd of May 2012. This years event looks towards consumption in the urban context. Various Speakers are already confirmed; Mario Minale of Minale Maeda designers in Rotterdam, and Mette Skovbjerg of Kalundborg Symbiosis. The day long event will surely be an outstanding platform for a diverse and fascinating discussion on the future of our urban context. Tickets and further information will follow over the next few weeks.

Mission Statement:

Architecture and Urbanism Symposium Manchester 2012

We live in an increasingly urban world where consumption is accelerating exponentially. Is a new approach required? One that looks towards a finite level of consumption, that addresses issues sustainably and improves how we consume.

Hosted by the students of MA in Architecture and Urbanism at Manchester School of Architecture, this symposium will look towards the future of our cities. On 3 May 2012 a wide spectrum of ideas, theories and practices of varying scales regarding an urbanism fit for consumption will be debated.

A range of invited speakers will explore the subject of consumption, both what is being done and what can be achieved to progress positively, dealing with issues such as:

Sunday, 29 January 2012

Tuesday, 17 January 2012

On Thursday the 19th of January at 6.30pm there will be a screening, over at the Deaf Institute here in Manchester, of Gary Hustwit's new film, Urbanized. The third film in his documentary trilogy series, following on from Helvetica and Objectified, looks to the urbanisation of our planet. Worth a visit.

Tuesday, 10 January 2012

Manchester's Dwelle has recently completed a mock up of its micro house. Situated at the foot of the curry mile in Rusholme, it's original approach to home living appears somewhat lost in a barren landscape of mediocrity.

About Look Up Manchester

Look Up is a collaborative effort between students at the Manchester School of Architecture that hopes to raise awareness of architecture and the built environment of the 'original modern' city - Manchester.